Bureau supports the WVSOM.
67. INCREASED TUITION FOR NONRESIDENT STUDENTS, FOREIGN STUDENTS &
PRISONERS
West Virginia Farm Bureau recommends increased
tuition sufficient to cover the state’s cost of education
for out-of-state and foreign students and incarcerated
prisoners at state supported colleges and universities.
We wish to express our concern about methods used to
determine residency.
68. WV DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Realizing that in excess of one-half billion dollars
of West Virginia’s annual income is derived from
agriculture and allied industries, West Virginia
Farm Bureau believes it is imperative that the West
Virginia Department of Agriculture be maintained and
financially supported. The proceeds from all sales of
property maintained by the West Virginia Department
of Agriculture should be retained by the West Virginia
Department of Agriculture.
For
Sale
Ear Corn $150 per ton
6 Ft Pickup Bed $100
8 Ft Pickup Bed $135
Valley Bend, WV 304-338-4856
Natural Resources
and Environment
69. GENERAL POLICY ON OIL & GAS
West Virginia Farm Bureau recognizes the
importance of the oil and natural gas industry to the
State of West Virginia and supports the responsible
development of this industry, provided adequate
protection is afforded to the state’s agricultural and
other natural resources. Farm Bureau recognizes the
importance of private property rights in our society
and supports the rights of land and mineral owners
to negotiate freely with other parties, but recognizes
that certain proposals for unitization for oil and gas
extraction may create opportunities for Farm Bureau
members which outweigh any objections to the
process.
Farm Bureau believes that land use decisions
should be made only after consideration of the impacts
of any land use decision on the entire property, and
that severance of the surface and subsurface estates is
not only ill-advised as a matter of agricultural policy,
but unduly burdensome to the eventual owners of
each estate, and to our government for record keeping.
Farm Bureau supports proposals that bring about the
reunification of the surface and subsurface estate in all
circumstances where the owner of a subsurface estate
is missing, unidentifiable, unaccounted for, or fails to
pay the mineral taxes.
Moreover, Farm Bureau believes that proceeds
from extractive industries should accrue to the benefit
of those who own and harvest those resources,
and those from whose lands these resources are
extracted. Farm Bureau supports proposals that direct
the payments due an unidentifiable, missing, or
unaccounted for mineral owner under an existing lease
agreement to the owner of the surface estate rather
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